"triple-team" meaning in All languages combined

See triple-team on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: triple-teams [present, singular, third-person], triple-teaming [participle, present], triple-teamed [participle, past], triple-teamed [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} triple-team (third-person singular simple present triple-teams, present participle triple-teaming, simple past and past participle triple-teamed)
  1. (transitive, sports) In sports involving offensive and defensive teams, to use three defensive players to guard against the movements of a single offensive player. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Sports
    Sense id: en-triple-team-en-verb-ZaMqc4eO Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
  2. (transitive, by extension) To deal with or handle a task or individual person by using a team of three people. Tags: broadly, transitive
    Sense id: en-triple-team-en-verb-NwRbECSG
  3. (transitive, slang, of three people) To sexually penetrate someone simultaneously orally, anally, and vaginally. Tags: slang, transitive
    Sense id: en-triple-team-en-verb-0HeHl2EJ
  4. (transitive, slang) To gang up on someone, as a group of three. Tags: slang, transitive
    Sense id: en-triple-team-en-verb-w7p4zOjb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 33 7 15 44
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Coordinate_terms: double-team, quadruple-team

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